Fred Schwab quotes

“A cat sleeps fat, yet walks thin.”
-- Fred Schwab

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“A sleeping cat is ever alert.”
-- Fred Schwab

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“But [Pooh] couldn't sleep. The more he tried to sleep the more he couldn't. He tried counting Sheep, which is sometimes a good way of getting to sleep, and, as that was no good, he tried counting Heffalumps. And that was worse. Because every Heffalump that he counted was making straight for a pot of Pooh's honey, and eating it all. For some minutes he lay there miserably, but when the five hundred and eighty-seventh Heffalump was licking its jaws, and saying to itself, "Very good honey this, I don't know when I've tasted better," Pooh could bear it no longer.”

“When the journey's over/There'll be time enough to sleep.”

Source : 'A Shropshire Lad' (1896) no. 4

“The Sunflow'r, thinking 'twas for him foul shame To nap by daylight, strove t' excuse the blame; It was not sleep that made him nod, he said, But too great weight and largeness of his head.”

“Writing is hard work, and if anything's true about the process, it's that fact that a good story is hard to find and even trickier to get on paper. What's less romantic than staring alone at a blank screen? And edgy? I've changed the cat little because I didn't know what my characters were going to say next.”

“Then it suddenly and theatrically began to clean itself in the way cats do when they want you to know what a big deal you aren't.”

Source : Jeramey Kraatz, Adam Rex, Adam Jay Epstein, Andrew Jacobson, Tim Green (2012). “Class Acts Kids' Ebook Sampler”, p.55, Harper Collins

“Nana acts like a stray cat, wild, free, and proud.... ...But inside her heart, she houses a wound. Dense as I am, i thought that. This trait of hers was a part of her charm as well. ..but she never realized how much pain it brought her.... -Nana Komatsu”

“With one of the most bewitching sounds in the world, its purr, the cat persuades us that it thinks we are wonderful.”

“Cats of good breed hunt better fat than lean.”

Source : Benvenuto Cellini (1952). “Memoirs of Benvenuto Cellini: a Florentine Artist”

“I was a fat-headed guy full of pain.”

“Some mythological fat asswipe drives our national economy.”